Justice League: Cry for Justice #3-4
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January 10, 2011
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22:47
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Together, we can BE justice!
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(Open on Linkara walking up to Pollo, looking to get a status report on all the data they have currently collected on Lord Vyce's ship)
Linkara: Pollo, report!
Pollo: The ship remains in orbit. Communication attempts from a few nations have been made, but there has been no response.
(Linkara picks up his Nintendo DS and views the footage of Vyce's ship on it, but noting something odd as he does so)
Linkara: There are satellites that have come into contact with this thing and have just vanished.
Pollo: Watch the footage slowed down.
(Linkara does so and discovers another peculiar piece of evidence)
Linkara: Ahhhhh, now, that is very interesting. The satellites aren't vanishing, they're being destroyed, just very quickly!
Pollo: Are you sure this is Vyce's ship? You never saw it from the outside.
Linkara: I think the big "V" on the front of it is a good indicator.
Pollo: So how are they being destroyed so quickly?
Linkara: That ship is emitting some kind of "time shield" around it, keeping it out of sync from our universe's time scale. Days or weeks could pass, and it would only be minutes on that ship!
Pollo: Which means that the ship cannot be attacked by conventional weapons?
Linkara: Exactly! Launch a missile at the thing, and until it actually penetrates the shield – which it can't – from their point of view, it looks like it's taking forever! And it gives them ample time to calculate its position and end it before it becomes a threat.
Pollo: For the moment, there is nothing we can do but wait. I'll try to get as much information as I can, but hopefully this will all turn out to be nothing.
Linkara: And if it is Vyce, it looks like he's finally making his move...
(Cut to the AT4W title sequence; title card's song is the theme song for The New Justice Team, a show within a show featured in the Futurama Season 4 episode "Less Than Hero"; cut to Linkara sitting on his futon as usual)
Linkara: Hello, and welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. Since we've got some time before we're all killed by the invasion of Lord Vyce, I figure we can continue the review of "Justice League: Cry for Justice".
(Cut to shots of panels from last week's video on "Cry for Justice")
Linkara (v/o): When we last left our motley band of dumbasses, Hal Jordan decided that he was tired of the Justice League only reacting to crimes as they happened, so he took off with Green Arrow to respond to crimes while they happened. I'd say that would make more sense if you'd seen the last video, but that would be a lie. Meanwhile, several other superheroes have been trying to track down the supervillain Prometheus, whose agents have been stealing several bits of advanced technology all over the world. And all throughout this, supporting characters have been killed off-panel, leading to everyone wanting JUSTIIIIIICE!!!
Linkara: So let's dig into (holds up today's comics) "Justice League: Cry for Justice #3" and "#4". (beat) For great justice.
Linkara (v/o): We open to... Supergirl's boobs next to the four male heroes. Well done, Mauro Cascioli. Way to screw over any respect I might've had for your art.
Green Lantern: All right, Supergirl, here you are. And you saved my life--much appreciated, by the way. But I still have to ask-- Are you here now as a hero...or as a villain?
Linkara: Wow, awkward and stupid right out of the starting gate!
(Cut to a montage of shots of Supergirl)
Linkara (v/o): This once again requires backstory explanation. Supergirl, at least in how her series began, had a tendency to go evil every once in a while for one reason or another. In addition, at the same time this was being published, there was an event going on in the Superman books called "New Krypton". It was revealed that an entire city full of Superman's people had survived their planet's destruction, and eventually they left Earth and all Kryptonians were forced into exile, Superman and Supergirl included.
(Cut back to "Cry for Justice")
Linkara (v/o): I could think of at least five different ways Hal could've said hello to Supergirl, given that backstory, but instead we go for confrontational and stilted. Oh, and apparently, such dialogue is so painful and hurtful, Supergirl instantly sheds a tear.
Linkara: Dear Lord, that opening line was actually so bad that it hurt her emotionally!
Linkara (v/o): Green Arrow calls Hal out on being a jackass to the woman who saved them... aaaand proceeds to condescend to Supergirl and treat her like a four-year-old.
Green Arrow: Hey. Don't cry. The horrible man didn't mean it. He gets grumpy around this time of day if he doesn't get a candy bar. We know you're on our side.
Linkara: Chronologically, Supergirl's about 17 or 18 or so at the time of this book, so go on, Green Arrow, it's either mistrust or patronizing.
Linkara (v/o): Atom says the mistrust is about the whole "no Kryptonians" thing, but Supergirl explains that she's on Earth to look for the people responsible for the murder of her father, and thought the others might be of help to her.
Supergirl: My father's dead. I want justice. Together we can be justice!
Linkara: (dismayed) Oh, God. Now I understand why she was crying. She knows what book she's in. And she knows that the stupid has infected her!
Atom: We want Prometheus.
Captain Marvel, Jr.: And justice too, if you get down to it.
Linkara: (pretending to write something) Well, we can pencil you in for justice at about 5:00 or so...
Linkara (v/o): While Hal contemplates making this group of ragtag justice-seekers into a team, we cut to Mikaal and Congorilla engaged in character development. If this series was about these two, this might actually make for a good sequence. Instead, it really is just padding because they will have little to no impact on the actual story. Congorilla also exposits that among his tribe, there was also a gorilla scientist... yeah, there's a race of hyper-intelligent gorillas who have their own city; that's the kind of thing I like to see in comics, not lots of murder and horribly written lines! ...who was the only one whose body he couldn't find. As such, he reasons his tribe was murdered so Prometheus could kidnap him. We cut to Prometheus being tortured by the Justice League of Justice. Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen!
Green Arrow: I gotta say*, Hal--is this right? I mean, isn't this torture?
- NOTE: Green Arrow actually says, "Ask," not "Say".
Linkara: No, it's a brain enema– YES, IT'S TORTURE, YOU IDIOT!!!
Green Lantern: Prometheus is a villain, Ollie. He's a murderer.
Linkara: He's a human being subject to due process of law. Go to hell! Oh, wait, you've already been there, what with the whole "murdering people and trying to take over the universe" thing! Go screw yourself, Hal!
Linkara (v/o): You don't get to play morally superior after that, asshole! And by the way, Hal is a member of the Green Lantern Corps. The Corps is basically an intergalactic police force and everyone who wields a ring is subject to rules as well. I admit, I'm not one of the brave and fearless members of this little organization, but I'm pretty sure there's a byline somewhere about not torturing criminals! I mean, seriously, the friggin' ring is supposed to be monitoring Hal, and no one has contacted him to say "Yeah, Hal, knock it off."
Green Arrow: Yeah, but aren't we supposed to be the good guys?
Green Lantern: Ask me when the sting of Bruce and J'onn's death and all the others has gone away, if it ever does.
Linkara: So, this book forces us to ask what justice is. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the answer to that is not "violations of civil rights by grieving friends of the victims"!
Linkara (v/o): And by the by, Prometheus didn't kill either of them, so what the hell are you pissed at him for exactly? Oh, yeah, he supposedly killed all of those people off-panel. Goody-goody gumdrops! That certainly justifies this! The Atom, having been the one rattling around his head, retreats out after Prometheus agrees to talk. They wanna know how Prometheus got all the second-stringers to work for him. Oh, yeah, let's talk about that again. In this issue, we saw some more bodies on the ground, including Mr. Freeze, Killer Frost, and Bizarro. THEY ARE NOT SECOND-STRINGERS! Hell, Bizarro's as strong as Superman, and yet Green Arrow and Green Lantern has no problem taking them down on their own! Grr! Prometheus explains, in the third person, that he wanted to be like Batman; someone without any powers and yet he still commanded the respect and fear of people with incredible power. And to a degree, that's true: his origin is basically a reverse Batman, with his parents being killed by the police and becoming an expert at everything. But Prometheus' fighting skills and knowledge came from the helmet he wears, which includes data discs about how to fight every potential enemy he could ever face, mostly heroes; meaning that he's not really like Batman; he cheats for his skills. Batman defeated him by overwriting the software so he'd have the fighting skills of only one person: Stephen Hawking. I'm not even kidding! And that's how you defeat a villain in this kind of story: by being clever! But as this story concludes, we shall see what Prometheus' real weakness is: an ordinary arrow. Dear God, I just wanna slam my face into this book repeatedly in the hopes that some of my own brain will merge with it and make it less dumb! We cut to Mikaal and Congorilla. They're approached by a group of jetpack-wielding robots.
Mikaal: We'll use the plane to counterattack.
Congorilla: If it had any bullets that would be a wonderful notion. No, I'll meet them in the air, one-on-one, like you.
Mikaal: But you can't fly.
Congorilla: I've always found it best to worry about one thing at a time.
Linkara: My God! A giant intelligent gorilla and an alien are about to fight robots on jetpacks! ...WHY IS THIS STORY NOT ABOUT THEM?!?
Congorilla: TALLY HO!!!
(A fight scene occurs, accompanied by Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", which is every bit as awesome as it sounds)
Linkara (v/o): They defeat the robots and proceed, Congorilla having to swim the rest of the way. Back with Torture for Justice, Prometheus explains that he summoned the other villains there to lure as many heroes as could be attracted as once.
Linkara: What a brilliant plan! (beat) Except for the fact that nobody knew about the meeting except Jason Bard, who called all of two people to stop them!
Linkara (v/o): Prometheus starts mutating, revealing himself to be Clayface in disguise!
(A dramatic music sting plays as Linkara looks up from the comic in shock... only to cut his surprise short when he realizes something...)
Linkara: Hey, wait a second! If he was Clayface this entire time, what the hell was the Atom doing inside of his skull? He's made of mud! How would that torture him?!
Linkara (v/o): Green Lantern's ring suddenly warns him of a bomb being primed inside of Clayface that explodes immediately! Oh, fantastic, the most powerful weapon in the universe, and it can't detect a homemade bomb inside of a person made out of mud that's pretending to be someone else. And yeah, the bomb explodes, hopefully killing them all so we can end this nonsense. We now go to a flashback where the real Prometheus starts monologuing to Ira Quimby, AKA the mad scientist I.Q. I.Q. wants more intelligence as a reward for his assisting Prometheus, and Prometheus proceeds to give his backstory, but with some new details. Remember how I told you about that battle he had with Batman? Well, it turns out that he's been in an asylum since then, and the Prometheus who has been running around since then has been an impostor. In one way, this is good. You see, Prometheus only had two significant appearances since that point. One was in the dreadful storyline "Hush Returns", the sort-of sequel to the excellent Batman storyline "Hush". Since that story sucked, yay, that wasn't really him! The problem is the other story he was in. Yet again, it's Gail Simone's series "Birds of Prey", where Prometheus was a hell of a lot more dignified and managed to take down one of the DC Universe's deadliest assassins in seconds. That did not need to be retconned. In fact, this, along with the dialogue about the "Birds of Prey" from Issue 2 make me wonder if James Robinson has some sort of problem with Gail Simone or that book. Yeah, I know, paranoia, but it does make you wonder...
Linkara: Furthermore, the exact details of what happened are thankfully included in the trade collection that I have here... except it makes what happened even more implausible.
Linkara (v/o): The Martian Manhunter and Batman basically mind-wipe him temporarily so he won't be a threat anymore to the League. Yeah... The problem is that DC had several events all leading around the idea of superheroes mind-wiping criminals being a bad thing! All of which were published five years ago! Especially when it was revealed they had mind-wiped Batman for ten minutes of his memory, too! So after all of that moral ambiguity that the creators raised about whether or not it's okay to do that, the two people who were really against mind-wiping, Batman and the Martian Manhunter, are the first in line to shove a problem away with a mind-wipe and put it in a mental institution. What... a... load. Anyway, Prometheus explains that after everything that happened, he wants revenge on the heroes for what they did to him.
Prometheus: I want revenge on the super-hero community as a whole.
Linkara: (dryly) Why? (beat) It's a simple question. Batman and the Martian Manhunter were the ones who took away several years of your life, not the entire superhero community. Why do you wanna do it?
Prometheus: I want them to feel pain-- true pain. But once you've killed a few, the thrill and satisfaction you might imagine, fades. And death-- can mean nothing.
Linkara: (matter-of-factly) Go after their families and loved ones. You're smart, you can figure out their secret identities.
Linkara (v/o): Blah, blah, blah, he can't kill them, he has to hit their hearts. No, instead, he has a convoluted, nonsensical plan for revenge rather than simply hurting their loved ones.
Prometheus: I began by gathering the science--having others do my bidding in America--to hide my goals for the time being.
Linkara: You suck at this! Pretty much every person you sent out squealed your name immediately!
Linkara (v/o): Oh, but he says Europe was different. He went there directly and killed a superhero team known as the Global Guardians. Yes, more people killed off-panel without even a grand final stand. Oh, and in case you're wondering, that tie-in book where Prometheus wakes up and all had him kill off more people too. I'm beginning to see why James Robinson referenced "Countdown" in Issue 2. Clearly, it was an inspiration for him! Oh, and it turns out that I.Q.'s drink, instead of granting him more intelligence, has regressed his mental age to an infant, since he knows too much of Prometheus' plans. He could have just killed him, of course, but that wouldn't be evil enough! And so, our comic ends with Prometheus throwing his wine glass to the floor with a map of the United States behind him, with several cities on it circled in red.
(Cut to the first page of the next issue)
Linkara (v/o): Issue 4 begins with the heroes crawling out of the wreckage of the blown-up building. Our villain, who apparently can't even blow up a few superheroes without screwing it up.
Linkara: (as one of the heroes rising out of the rubble) Oh, man, I'm sore. I need to take some Justice– er, I mean Tylenol! (beat) Tylenol of Justice.
Linkara (v/o): Captain Marvel explains that he protected them all from the blast with his lightning, an idea so stupid that it's actually a plot point for later. The group contemplates that Prometheus may have a hold on more villains, the same way he had on Clayface, who mentioned before he exploded that his kid was being threatened. Supergirl reasons that he's not too clever, since the explosion wouldn't have hurt her or Captain Marvel.
Hal: My ring says different--
Hal's Ring: Analysis of explosive compound: laced with molecular nanobytes-- reconfiguring substance of blast every .000034 milliseconds.
Linkara: (smug tone, not buying it at all) Nope. Uh-uh. I don't buy it for one minute. Explosions do not work that way.
Hal's Ring: At moment of explosion-- trace elements of kryptonite. Also active ingredient Jordan DNA, making possibility ring would override protective screen.
Linkara: (clearly annoyed) There's not a damn bit of sense with that. The DNA would've been fried! The nanobots are too quick for believability! Explosions cannot simply change the elements within them on a whim!
Linkara (v/o): This is like something out of a bad fanfic a nine-year-old wrote!
Linkara: (acting like said nine-year-old) And then, the evil Prometheus made a super-duper bomb that could kill anybody because it had magic nanites that could make the explosion out of kryptonite, too!
Linkara (v/o): We cut to San Francisco, where we see a scene of actual superheroing happen. Wow, heroes defeating villains! Ain't that a twist? But of course, we can't have a scene in this book without something stupid about it. Here we have Miss Martian, a fairly new superheroine and member of the Teen Titans. She stops a supervillain named Brick from kidnapping a little girl. Here are the two problems with this. First: upskirt shot of a teenage superheroine's ass. Classy. Second: while I wasn't a fan of Judd Winick's run on "Green Arrow", I do own a few trades of it featuring this guy, Brick. This kind of kidnapping, especially done by himself in the wrong city, is out of character. Anyway, she's met by Jay Garrick. Next, we cut to Paris where Congorilla and Mikaal have now encountered the supervillains working for Prometheus, and responsible for their respective loved ones' deaths. Congorilla is about to kill them, yelling out for them to die, but then Mikaal stops him.
Mikaal: It came to me in a moment of--I don't know--it's like Tony is here with me suddenly-- He wouldn't want this--blood spilled in his name.
Linkara: (as Mikaal) It came to me in a moment of story contrivance!
Mikaal: Vengeance isn't justice, Bill. Blood isn't justice!
Linkara: (as Mikaal) Together, we can be justice!
Linkara (v/o): Anyway, with such a convincing argument, Congorilla stays his paw and instead interrogates the villains for information. One tells them about Prometheus, but before he can give away Prometheus' location, another villain kills him, and Mikaal is forced to kill her to save Congorilla. Yeah, you're really honoring Tony's memory now, blue boy. We see a series of scenes where Jay Garrick is talking to dozens of heroes for no adequately explained reason, mostly members of the Justice Society before we suddenly return to Green Arrow and Green Lantern. Once again, Ray Palmer is doing his best to pretend to be intimidating and breaking forty years of character development by torturing a villain. Hal just keeps up his "they're villains and it's okay to torture them", while Green Arrow has decided, "You know, maybe having someone step on your brain isn't exactly a ethical thing to do!" Atom and Green Lantern try to convince him that it's okay to do it, but Green Arrow's had enough, unleashing a sonic arrow that knocks them back.
Supergirl: Stop it, all of you!
Captain Marvel, Jr.: You heard her! STOP THIS INSANITY!
Linkara: So screamed the thousands of people who paid money for this abomination!
Linkara (v/o): Anyway, it gets them to stop for a second, and Captain Marvel suggests that maybe Prometheus is getting into their heads and is planning something big, and that they'll need help to stop him. They fly off to the Justice League satellite to seek help. Oh, yeah, and here we see Batwoman running around. Yeah, she was supposed to be in the line-up for James Robinson's little Justice Pals, but after all the editorial changes in the book, it never amounted to jack diddly. Thus, every sequence we've seen of her has been entirely pointless. Meanwhile, Jay Garrick talks with the Shade, former villain and anti-hero from James Robinson's "Starman" series. His appearance in this book is, yet again, completely and utterly pointless, and, as we'll see in the next few issues, rather insulting. And so, Issue 4 ends with the New Justice Team arriving back in the purple skies of the Justice League satellite, where a group of heroes say they have some explaining to do. Oh, and looky! These are Vixen and Firestorm, both of whom are supposed to be black, and yet their coloring makes them as white as everyone else on the satellite. Well done! Oh, this issue was apparently called "The Fix". I have no idea what the hell that's supposed to refer to, so I'll just sigh and end by saying...
Linkara: (holding up comics) THESE COMICS SUCK! Dear Lord, it's just getting worse and worse! But the crowning achievement of despicable moments and just plain bad writing is still to come.
(End credits roll)
So what this comic is saying is that if I coated a knife in some of Hal Jordan's DNA, like his blood or other bodily fluids, I could stab him through his energy constructs. Worst. Weakness. EVER.
Well, it only took Hal four issues to run back home to the satellite. I'm betting he's grounded, not allowed to play on the X-Box, and has to go to bed early for two weeks.
(Stinger: An ominous message appears: "V-Minus 32". Vyce continues to draw ever closer...)
(end)
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2015:
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Miller Time: All-Star Batman and Robin 9 · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 2 · Trouble 1 · Comic Book Quickies 4 · PSA Hell: Energy and Safety with the Justice League · Youngblood 7 · ROMTROSPECTIVE: ROM Spaceknight 1-40 · ROMTROSPECTIVE: ROM Spaceknight 41-75 · The Star Wars 1 · Batman: Jazz 3 · Mr. T and the T-Force 3 · Big Bang Presents 3: Protoplasman! · Crimson 1 · Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (RPG Game) · Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone · PSA Hell: Batman: Shadow of the Bat 57 · Comic Book Quickies 5 · Avengers Assemble Featuring Captain Citrus 1 · Doctor Who/Star Trek: The Next Generation: Assimilation Squared · My Cage · The Punisher 60 · The Punisher 61 & 62 · Steam Wars · Ultimate Power 1-2 · Homestuck, Act 1 · Atomic Robo, Vol. 3 · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Superman · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Batman · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Wonder Woman · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating The Flash · Zyuranger Episodes 17-22 · Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: The Computer Trap · Trouble 2 · Pokémon Reburst, Chapter 1 · Green Lantern 23.1 · Team Youngblood 1 · US-1 5 · The Star Wars 2 · Power Man and Iron Fist 79 · Nightmares on Elm Street 1-2 · Nightmares on Elm Street 3-4 · Nightmares on Elm Street 5-6 · Spider-Man: Virtual Mortality · More Fun Comics 73 · Daredevil 1 · Action Comics 252 · Tales of Suspense 52 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 1 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 2 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 3 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 4 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 5 · Deadpool Bi-Annual 1 · Cho Dengeki Stryker · Zombies Christmas Carol 1-3 · Zombies Christmas Carol 4-5 · Another 15 Missed Opportunities of AT4W
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2016:
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NFL SuperPro Special Edition 1 · Popeye: Borned to the Sea 1 · OnStar Batman Auto Show Special Edition 1 · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 3 · The Star Wars 3 · Youngblood 8 · All-Star Batman and Robin 10 · Pokémon Adventures Ch. 1-2 · Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Episodes 1-5 · Blue-Skying, Part 1: Blue Beetle Dan Garrett · Blue-Skying, Part 2: Blue Beetle Ted Kord · Blue-Skying, Part 3: Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes · Blue-Skying, Part 4: Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes New 52 · Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone · Blackest Night 1-8 · Dart 1 · Batman: Shadow of the Bat 58 · The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky · Ultimate Power 3 · Star Trek: The Next Generation 3 · Comic Book Quickies 6 · 400th Episode · 400th Episode: Part 2 · Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man · Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day 1 · Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day 2 · Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day 3 · 15 Things Wrong With Marvel's Civil War · Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1 · The Minister of Chance · US-1 6 · Star Trek: Voyager 1 · Unsounded, Chapter 1 · Biggles and the Menace from Space · Batman and Robin: The Official Comic Adaptation · Superman and the TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids: Victory by Computer · Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War · My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic 27-28 · Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Ch. 1 · Pryde of the X-Men · A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid 1 · A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid 2 · A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid 3 · Spider-Man: Cyberwar · The Real Ghostbusters in Ghostbusters II 1-3 · Strange Tales 110 · More Fun Comics 73: Aquaman · Tales of Suspense 57 · All-Star Comics 3 · My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic 2015 Holiday Special · Ghostbusters: Past, Present, and Future · Elvira's House of Mystery Special 1 · Another 15 Screw-Ups of AT4W
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2017:
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Digimon: Digital Monsters 1 · Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl 1-6 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 · Trouble 3 · The Star Wars 4 · Spectacular Spider-Man Episode 1x10 - "Persona" · Youngblood 9 · The A-Team 2 · The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest · See You Next Mirror: Exiles Retrospective, Part 1 · See You Next Mirror: Exiles Retrospective, Part 2 · Reagan's Raiders 1 · Fist of the North Star, Ch. 1 · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 4 · Iron Man: The Animated Series - The Wedding of Iron Man · Athena 3 · Batman: The Dark Knight 1-3 · The New Teen Titans Anti-Drug Giveaway 2 · Crisis on Infinite Earths · Secret Wars (1984) · The Infinity Gauntlet · Flashpoint · Babylon 5 1 · The Star Wars 5 · All-New Ghost Rider, Volume 2 · Robocop vs. the Terminator 2 · Superman vs. the Terminator 2 · Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: News By Computer Foils Kidnappers · Ultimate Power 4 · Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1 · Batman: Odyssey 1 · Asterix: The Legionary · Comic Book Quickies 7 · JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Episodes 1-4 (2012-2013 series) · Thunderbirds Are Go · Batman: The Official Movie Adaptation · Ultimate Iron Man Vol. 1 1-2 · My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic 11-12 · Stormwatch 0 · A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning 1-2 · A Nightmare on Elm Street: Fearbook · New Line Cinema's Tales of Horror 1 · The Sensational Spider-Man 0 · Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash · Marvel Comics 1 · Brave and the Bold 28 · Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 1-4 · Clive Barker's Hellraiser Dark Holiday Special · Sensation Comics 14: The Story of Fir Balsam · Steam Wars Holiday Special · Christmas with the Superheroes 2
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2018:
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My Top 15 Favorite Episodes of AT4W · Legion of Superheroes: The Great Darkness Saga · James Bond, Jr. 1 · JLA/Avengers · Homestuck, Act 2 · Isaac Asimov's I-Bots 1 · Thunderstrike 1 · Youngblood 10 · Badrock 1A · Event Comics Month II: Infinite Crisis · Event Comics Month II: Infinity War · Event Comics Month II: World War Hulk · Event Comics Month II: Final Crisis · Power Rangers Turbo vs. Beetleborgs Metallix 1 · Diesel 1 · Teen Titans: "Betrayal" and "Aftershock, Parts 1 and 2" · The Punisher: Purgatory · Comic Book Quickies 8 · 500th Episode · Dark Knight III: The Master Race 1-2 · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Green Lantern · The New Guardians 3 · US-1 7 · Nova Girls: Space 34-24-34 · Batman: Odyssey 2 · Star Wars 3-D 2 · Pokémon - The Electric Tale of Pikachu 3 · PSA Hell: Captain America Meets the Asthma Monster · Superman and Spider-Man · Amazing Cow Heroes 4: Cold Cuts · Ravage 2099 2 · Adventures of the Kool-Aid Man 2 · Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: Safeguarding the Environment · Mr. T and the T-Force 4 · Star Trek 2 (DC) · Star Trek (2009): The Official Motion Picture Adaptation · Star Trek: The Next Generation 4 · Star Trek 1 (Gold Key) · Silent Hill: Hunger · The Thing: The Northern Nightmare · Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors · Spider-Man: Smoke and Mirrors · Hellraiser: Hell on Earth · Fantastic Four 52 · Marvel Comics 1 (The Human Torch) · The Incredible Hulk 181 · The New Mutants 98 · Batman Returns: The Official Comic Adaptation · The Punisher: Red X-Mas · Star Wars: The Force Awakens Comic Adaptation · Luke Cage, Hero for Hire 7
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2019:
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Yet Another 15 Missed Opportunities of AT4W · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 5 · Batman/Aliens 1 · Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel · Pokémon 15x19-20 "Cilan Takes Flight" and "An Amazing Aerial Battle" · Tomb Raider Vol. 3: Queen of Serpents · Little Victory: Chimera 1 · Youngblood 0 · Kickers, Inc. 1 · The Savage Dragon 1 · Darkwing Duck 1-4 · The California Raisins 3-D 5 · Hellstar Remina, Ch. 1-3 · Gallery of Horrors · Batman: The Dark Knight 16-17 · Tremors · Ultimate Power 5-6 · Batman Forever: The Official Comic Adaptation · Street Fighter: The Official Comic Adaptation · Catwoman: The Official Comic Adaptation · Dune: The Official Comic Adaptation · Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Movie Special · Justice is Silent: Cassandra Caintrospective, Part 1 · Justice is Silent: Cassandra Caintrospective, Part 2 · Justice is Silent: Cassandra Caintrospective, Part 3 · US-1 8 · Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: Community Action Program · Captain America Goes to War Against Drugs · Comic Book Swimsuit Issues · Batman 45-47: The Gift · Star Trek: The Next Generation 5 · The A-Team 3 · JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Episodes 5-9 · Trouble 4 · Franken Fran, Ch. 1 and 4 · Youngblood: Judgment Day · Teen Titans 27-28 · Clive Barker's Hellraiser 1 · Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special · Clive Barker's Hellraiser Spring Slaughter · Spider-Man: The Exile Returns · Detective Comics 225 (Martian Manhunter) · Batman: Harley Quinn 1 · DC Comics Presents 26 · The Flash 123 · Evil Dead 2: A Merry Deadmite X-Mas · Transformers (UK) 145 · The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold 14 · Star Wars: The Last Jedi Comic Adaptation
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2020:
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Top 15 Dumbest Evil Plans of AT4W · Batman/Aliens 2 · Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Deep Trouble 1-4 · Megamind · Revolution · Superman vs. Muhammad Ali · Hellstar Remina, Ch. 4-6 · Youngblood: Strikefile 1 · Comic Book Quickies 9 · Black Panther, Vol. 4 1-6 · Batman: Odyssey 3 · Justice League/Mighty Morphin Power Rangers · The Champions, Vol. 3 1-4: Beat the Devil · Star Trek vs. Transformers · Athena 4 · Daredevil: Born Again · Action Comics 775 · Comic Book Quickies 10 · 600th Episode · Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Comic Adaptation · Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Comic Adaptation · Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Comic Adaptation · Star Wars: Rogue One Comic Adaptation · DC Challenge! 1 · Kyoryu Sentai Zyurangers Episodes 40-43 · Trouble 5 · Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus · Superman 358 · Zero Hour: Crisis in Time · House of M · Secret Empire · Heroes in Crisis · Animax 1 · Ninjutsu 1-2 · Green Goblin 1-2, 4, 8, 12-13 · US-1 9 · Emergency! 1 · Mr. T and the T-Force 5 · Pinhead 1-3 · Pinhead 4-6 · Pinhead vs. Marshal Law · Spider-Man: Web of Life · Marvel Super-Heroes 12 (Captain Marvel) · The Flash 110 · The Amazing Spider-Man 129 · Awesome Comics Holiday Special · Transformers (UK) 41 · Solo: A Star Wars Story Comic Adaptation
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2021:
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Yet Another 15 Screw-Ups of AT4W · Star Trek Book and Record Set: Dinosaur Planet · DC Challenge! 2 · The Mighty Heroes 1 · Justice League 1x01-3: Secret Origins · The Star Wars 6 · The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Ep. 1-4 · Youngblood: Strikefile 2 · Pokémon 15×01-02: "Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader" & "Dazzling the Nimbasa Gym" · Stanley and his Monster 1-4 · Marvel Than Meets the Eye: The Transformers 1-40 · Marvel Than Meets the Eye: Transformers 41-80 · Marvel Than Meets the Eye: Generation 2 and Regeneration One · Star Trek 9 (Gold Key) · Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes · Mystery Science Theater 3000 1 · Batman: The Dark Knight Returns · Ultimate Power 7-8 · Batman: The Dark Knight 23.4 · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Aquaman · Sword Interval: Flashback Arc · PSA Hell: The Amazing Spider-Man: Riot at Robotworld · Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition) · Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron · The New Guardians 4 · Codename: Ninja 1 · Batman: Hush · Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Ep. 15-16 · Mr. T and the T-Force 6 · Doom’s IV 1 · Batman and Elmer Fudd & Catwoman and Sylvester and Tweety · Batman: Odyssey 4 · The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Vol. 1 · US-1 10 · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 6 · DC Challenge! 3 · Marvel Super Special 1: KISS · The Ring, Vol. 1 · The Ring, Vol. 2 · Spider-Man: Web of Death · Detective Comics 359 · The X-Men 4 · Batman 1 · Spider-Man Holiday Special 1995 · The Adventures of Chrissie Claus 1 · Christmas Quickies 1 · Still Another 15 Missed Opportunities of AT4W
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2022:
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Ultimate Power 9 · The Adventures of Superboy 3x05-06 and 4x07-08 · Batman: The Killing Joke Adaptation · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the JLA · Chew: Poyo Character Focus · Youngblood: Strikefile 3 · Doctor Who: Logopolis · Armageddon 2001 · Secret Invasion · Civil War II · Dark Nights: Metal · The Star Wars 7 · Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle and Whisper · Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Planet X · Stargate SG-1: P.O.W. · Man of Steel · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 7 · Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Episodes 17-21 · US-1 11 · X-Men Green · Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage · DC Challenge! 4 · Comic Book Quickies 11 · 700th Episode · Ken Penders' The Lost Ones 1 · Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope · Transformers: Deviations · Legion of Superheroes 0 and Legionnaires 0 · Mr. T and the T-Force 7 · The Ring, Vol. 3: Spiral · The Ring, Vol. 4: Birthday · Spider-Man: Funeral for an Octopus · Christmas Quickies 2 · Batman 27: A Christmas Peril · Mr. T and Emmanuel Lewis in A Christmas Dream · Top 15 Goofiest Superheroes of Atop the Fourth Wall
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2023:
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Star Wars: A New Hope Comic Adaptation · Marvelman Family's Finest 1 · Superman vs. Aliens 1 · Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney · Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits · Youngblood: Strikefile 4 · What Dreams May Come, Part 1: The Sandman 1-20 · What Dreams May Come, Part 2: The Sandman 21-40 · What Dreams May Come, Part 3: The Sandman 41-60 · What Dreams May Come, Part 4: The Sandman 61-75 · Animax 2 · The Dome: Ground Zero · Action Comics 1 (Non-Superman Stories) · Transformers (UK) 132-134 · Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Robin · Mr. T and the T-Force 8 · The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Vol. 2: Maelstrom · Captain Marvel: The Last Avenger · E-Robot, Ch. 1 · Overwatch: Legacy and Old Soldiers · Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight · Back to the Future: Who is Marty McFly? · Super Soldier 1 · Legends of the Dark Claw 1 · Spider-Boy 1 · Assassins 1 · DC Challenge! 5 · US-1 12 · The Star Wars 8 · Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters 8 · The Ring, Vol 0: Birthday · Sadako at the End of the World · Spider-Man: The Mark of Kaine · Sadako-San and Sadako-Chan · Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks · Doctor Who: The Klepton Parasites · Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight · Yu-Gi-Oh: Capsule Monsters Ep. 1-3 · Klaus 1-7
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2024:
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Still Another 15 Mistakes of AT4W · Batman vs. the Predator 1 · Ben 10 Ep. 1×01, 09, 13 · Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Ep. 14, 22-24 · Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Comic Adaptation · Sonic/Mega Man: Worlds Collide, Act 1
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Specials:
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AT4W 2009 Trailer · Linkara's Take on Watchmen · Watchmen Review · Theme Song Contest · The Spoony Experiment: Warrior #1 · Theme Song Contest Winner! · Blackest Night · Silent Hill: Dying Inside Trailer · Silent Hill Alternate Endings · AT4W & Spoony: Experiment Warrior 2-3 · October 2010 Trailer · Silent Hill: Dead/Alive Review Alternate Endings · The Live Show! · AT4W Story Recap · October 2011 Trailer · Return of AT4W Live! · Revenge of the AT4W Live! · Southland Tales · Curse of AT4W Live · House of AT4W Live! · Ghost of AT4W LIVE! · October 2012 Trailers · Bride of AT4W Live! · Son of AT4W Live! · Night of AT4W Live! · Day of AT4W Live! · Dawn of AT4W Live! · Land of AT4W Live! · Diary and Survival of AT4W Live! · Power of AT4W Live! · Midnight of AT4W Live! · Planet of AT4W LIVE! · Genesis of AT4W LIVE! · 300th Episode Livestream Recordings · Destiny of AT4W LIVE! · Resurrection of AT4W LIVE! · Revelation of AT4W Live! · Remembrance of AT4W LIVE! · The New 52 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 1 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 2 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 3 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 4 · Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Part 5
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